Fathers Defeated, Democratic Sons Strike Back

NY Times' Terrorist Tip Sheet ^ | August 14, 2006 | ROBIN TONER

[The South Texan]

Goody. We defeated the dads, now we get to defeat the sons. Too bad Byah can't be put to pasture in Indiana.

[farlander]

Ya know, I just don't understand that at all. Indiana, the 75% red state! I lived there for 8 years and still don't get it how come this guy keeps getting elected.

[martin_fierro]

'Nuff said.

[My2Cents]

“It shouldn’t be about ideology,” Mr. Bayh said. “It ought to be about practical...”

It should be about correct grammar.

The 1980 election drove the final stake into the heart of the Democrat Party. The old party actually died in 1968 with the rejection of the New Deal/Great Society. With that rejection, the old Democratic coalition of the mid-20th Century came unglued. What it morphed into was the New Democrat Party, which stands for nothing (but which stands against a lot of things, mainly decent things), but is an amalgamation of amoral relativists, labor goons, crackheads, perverts, power lusters, malcontents, baby-killers, cornholers, disease-carriers, nihilists, appeasers, shiftless "victims", sociopaths, race-baiters, radical atheists, journalists, and other ne'er-do-wells of assorted social pathologies. And it represents about 48% of the electorate.

[Shermy]

First Dem to blame Karl Rove loses.

[N. Theknow]

“I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view,” Evan Bayh said. Moreover, he argued, conservative strategists like Karl Rove like nothing better than to push Democrats into an ideological corner.

Liberals cannot admit they are liberal because no one will accept them.

Homosexuals call themselves gay for the same reason.

[trumandogz]

If the Dems nominate Bayh they will lose 49 states in 2008.

[Buck W.]

...the first of “a series of rolling shocks” for the Democratic Party that “started in 1980,” when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, “and really didn’t end until 1994.”

End in 1994? It ain't over yet.

[My2Cents]

[My2Cents]

and really didn’t end until 1994.”

Right. Democrats have won every election since. [snicker]

[sully777]

Does this mean Eleanor Mondale will run for office and find greater defeat than her father???

[NickatNite2003]

What? nDid you read his book? :P

[My2Cents]

Maybe she'll lose 50 states and the District of Columbia. That would outdo her father.

[My2Cents]

One of the greatest lines in movie history.

[SuziQ]

“It shouldn’t be about ideology,” Mr. Bayh said. “It ought to be about practical...”

He says that, but the Dems are never about anything BUT ideology!

[Lady Jag]

It's "Democrat", definitely not "democratic".

[Kenton]

The Democratic strategist William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, described it as the first of “a series of rolling shocks” for the Democratic Party that “started in 1980,” when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, “and really didn’t end until 1994.”

This really tells a lot about Democrats. Since they lost the congress and senate in 1994, they've been in complete shock. They've emotionally blanked out about certain unpleasantries since that time, like Clinton's impeachment in 1998, Bush's victory in 2000, their unability to parlay their hatred of Bush into taking back the house and senate in 2002, Bush's election in 2004...

They have become the captive of the Pol Pot/Daily KOS/Cindi Sheehan/Joseph Stalin wing of the party at the very time that the largest population group in history is reaching physical and emotional maturity. Hubert Humphrey must be spinning in his grave at what they have devolved to.

I see nothing good on the horizon for them in the foreseeable future.

[Rembrandt_fan]

The article reads, "Senator Evan Bayh, son of former Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, is organizing and testing the waters for a possible presidential bid in 2008."

Although not a corrupt, opportunistic sleazeball like Birch, his son has about the same chance as his father had at attaining the presidency: nil to none. Evan Bayh has the personality of a ball of yarn. By comparison, even Joe Biden seems like a paragon of charisma and sparkling wit.

Which, I suppose, puts Bayh on the short list for Democratic Party VP hopefuls. Should she receive the nomination, Hillary, for example, would want to move left in the primaries and then back to the center in time for the general election. Bayh's reputation as a moderate would serve her admirably in that regard.